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Saturday, January 27, 2018

New spider for the garden

Been poorly for the past 10 days, so not much recording recently. Pleased to get a new money spider for the garden this morning, Diplocephalus cristatus. A small linyphiid, not much hope of identifying it without a microscope. A couple of White-fronted Geese amongst the more regular Pink-footed Geese yesterday. Takes garden list to 1726.

7 comments:

I think we need more info regards your garden, 1726!!!! That's just amazing. How long have you been PSLing it, how large, habitats, species breakdowns, etc etc???? I know John Langmaid has recorded over 1000 species of moth for his garden, but I don't think he looks at much else though.

Hi Seth, I moved here from Kent in October 2013, so was too late to take part in the 1000 for 1 k square that year. I did take part in 2014 and recorded 1251 species in the 1 km square. However as previously mentioned most of the square is out-of-bounds, so I began to concentrate more on my garden list, the best year so far was 1158 species in 2016. The garden is quite small, with nothing special in the way of habitat, but does overlook or is close to good coastal dunes and good fenland habitat. I do run light traps, which attracts bugs, beetles and flies as well as moths. A breakdown of the species since Oct 2013 is as follows: